The Moorish General Othello art print by David G Wilson. Our prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.

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August 13th, 2018

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August 13th, 2018

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August 13th, 2018

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August 13th, 2018

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August 13th, 2018

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Artist's Description

The strategic juxtaposition of commonplace objects like a chair draped with Pan-African colors, weapons traditionally seen in Orientalist paintings and a hand of bananas strategically placed on a table upon which there is a warrant, creates the image of Shakespeare's protagonist of the same name - Othello. Shakespeare places Othello in Italy fighting against the Moors at the battle of Lepanto in 1571. But if he were a moor, why would Othello fight against his own people? I believe he would more likely be holding the warrant for the arrest of Fr. Bartolomeo de Las Casas on charges of "Crimes against humanity", for his suggestion to the monarchs of Spain to enslave his African brothers for four hundred years. Why did Shakespeare portray Othello as a traitor to his own moorish brothers? Is this the only image that he could portray of a black man?
In the image that makes up Othello's face, we see Desdemona (Des demons - French for the demons, thereby demonizing the white woman who "condesc...

About David G Wilson

I am exhausting tremendous efforts in trying to depict a spacial dimension that is inclusive of the third and supported by a two dimensional surface. It is a dimension that exists somewhere within our three dimensional terrestrial space, congruent and mutually inclusive of empirical realities. Its existence is contingent on the shifting retinal impressions of the viewer's perceptions. I call it: "Alternative Reality. Videos below"
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